Pope Francis presides over the funeral Mass next to the coffin of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Thursday at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ...

At first blush, this spectacle appears to be another example of Mediterranean popular religiosity and its fascination with ...

While the medical fraternity needs to reboot service and ethics, society, law keepers and the government should reboot to ...

The next phase in the life of Laudato Si', the decade-old encyclical on ecology, will not be defined by its author, Pope Francis, but instead will rely on others across the Catholic Church ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

Francis noted that in the novel, “everyone seems listless and passive, it seems obvious that the sick should be gotten rid of ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...

General Audience: Pope tells why he Chose Name of Benedict In his first general audience, which was held this morning in St. Peter's Square in the presence of 15,000 people, the Pope again gave ...

They joined a festive Mass at which Philippine bishops crowned the statue of the parish patroness, six months after Pope Benedict XVI approved the coronation. On April 22, 2005, only three days after ...

The label reads, "Dedicated to the Great Son of our Homeland, Pope Benedict XVI." • Benedict XVI was the youngest of three children whose father, Joseph Sr., was a police officer.

Joseph Ratzinger has appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica after being elected as the new Pope. The 78-year-old German chose the name of Pope Benedict XVI and blessed a packed St Peter's ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis.